As I said before, the last thing we need is the Government getting involved whether or not it causes problems with FIFA as whenever a Government gets involved in sport it invariably causes more harm than good. Besides which, there is nothing they've suggested which is a good idea that the FA can't achieve on its own.
Well for the aspects of it that relate to the FA, that's exactly what they've said - that the FA should do it. The Burns commission reported what 3, 5 years ago? And the FA has wholly failed to implement it's proposals because it's too weak to do so because of all the vested interests that so frustrated Watmore that he quit. The government aren't proposing to run football or anything of the sort which is what you seem to be getting worked up about, they're putting a bit of fire under the FA's arses to implement their own reform proposals, and probably aiming to give a bit of muscle to those within the FA that would like to do so.
No government wants to run football, they all want to be able to say "That's an issue for the football authorities". But the football authorities have plainly demonstrated they are wholly incapable of running the game, and the clubs that they cannot run themselves. What is needed is a strong independent regulatory body with the authority and the clout to sort the game out. That body should be the FA, but currently it is not. All political parties would dearly love it to sort itself out so it can be, precisely so they do not have to intervene in the minefield that is football.
Insofar as there's anything that really pertains to the FA in all this (or indeed anything of any real substance beyond electioneering), it's a bit of stick-waving, an implied threat to football as a whole that if it doesn't sort itself out, then there may be some form of government intervention.
